Battleangel

As many have feared and predicted, the temporary and unprecedented freedoms we enjoy could be coming to an end shortly. And America is leading the way of course. InfoWars has looked at some of these troubling trends.

Infowars - The Pentagon admitted that they would engage in psychological warfare and cyber attacks on ‘enemy’ Internet websites in an attempt to shut them down. The fact that the NSA surveillance program spied on 5,000 Americans tells us that the enemy is the alternative media and that it will be targeted for elimination. Court cases are pending after the Bush administration demanded the Google search terms of American citizens.

Also lists email credit stamps, “tiered” email delivery, Internet 2, data retention, selective bandwidth throttling and the determined demonizing of the Internet through urban myths, censorship and slurs.

See also: Is There A Google-Verizon Conspiracy Afoot? Regarding possible results of phone and cable companies penalizing firms like Google. The case being made by Verizon is much like the core philosophy behind media corporations arguing that copyright infringement is killing them. Because making an extra billion a year is a natural right. The business community seems out of whack with reality. Users would not stand for such limitations.

See also: The End of the Internet?. Doom9 framed our fears like this.

[...] here’s an outlook at what major telcos and cable companies want to shape the Internet into: An island of private networks where you pay for everything you do. You want to visit an independent newssite? 5 bucks please. You want to shop at another online store than your ISP’s preferred one? Another 5 bucks please. You want to browse to doom9.org? That’s free but we’ll send your subscriber data to the MPAA…